diff --git a/apiserver/mongo/initialize/pre_populate.py b/apiserver/mongo/initialize/pre_populate.py
index c3b7cce..a038b51 100644
--- a/apiserver/mongo/initialize/pre_populate.py
+++ b/apiserver/mongo/initialize/pre_populate.py
@@ -876,10 +876,10 @@ class PrePopulate:
                         "30795571a4704717a80de8705897ytuyg",
                     ]
 
-            auth_user = cls.auth_user_cls.from_json(json.dumps(user))
+            auth_user = cls.auth_user_cls.from_json(json.dumps(user), created=True)
             auth_user.company = company_id
             auth_user.save()
-            be_user = cls.user_cls.from_json(json.dumps(be_users[uid]))
+            be_user = cls.user_cls.from_json(json.dumps(be_users[uid]), created=True)
             be_user.company = company_id
             be_user.save()
 
diff --git a/apiserver/schema/services/events.conf b/apiserver/schema/services/events.conf
index f445e15..f2a253d 100644
--- a/apiserver/schema/services/events.conf
+++ b/apiserver/schema/services/events.conf
@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ get_multi_task_metrics {
                     type: array
                     items {type: string}
                 }
-                model_metrics {
+                model_events {
                     description: If not set or set to false then passed ids are task ids otherwise model ids
                     type: boolean
                     default: false
diff --git a/apiserver/tests/automated/test_task_events.py b/apiserver/tests/automated/test_task_events.py
index df81218..3cc3963 100644
--- a/apiserver/tests/automated/test_task_events.py
+++ b/apiserver/tests/automated/test_task_events.py
@@ -285,6 +285,15 @@ class TestTaskEvents(TestService):
 
         self._assert_log_events(task=task, expected_total=1)
 
+        metrics = self.api.events.get_multi_task_metrics(
+            tasks=[model],
+            event_type="training_stats_scalar",
+            model_events=True,
+        ).metrics
+        self.assertEqual([m.metric for m in metrics], [f"Metric{i}" for i in range(5)])
+        variants = [f"Variant{i}" for i in range(5)]
+        self.assertTrue(all(m.variants == variants for m in metrics))
+
     def test_error_events(self):
         task = self._temp_task()
         events = [